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id: low-latency
title: Low latency - Temporal feature
description: Discover how Temporal's design and features ensure low latency for your applications.
sidebar_label: Low latency
keywords:
  - low latency
  - temporal performance
  - temporal cloud
  - self-hosted temporal
  - workflow latency
  - temporal benchmarks
  - temporal sdk metrics
  - optimized workflow performance
  - latency-sensitive applications
  - temporal cloud advantages
tags:
  - Temporal Cloud
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Temporal Cloud provides features that significantly reduce latency compared to self-hosted instances, making your applications faster, more performant, and more efficient.
In the world of modern applications, low latency is crucial for ensuring minimal delay in Workflow Executions.
This low-latency architecture ensures rapid Workflow Execution and responsiveness, critical for time-sensitive applications and high-performance systems.

Temporal Cloud's custom persistence layer incorporates three key components that contribute to low latency:

- **Better Sharding:** Distributes load across multiple databases, preventing bottlenecks.
  Enables independent resizing, improving scalability and handling high-traffic events without delay.
- **Write-Ahead Log (WAL):** Aggregates updates before writing to the database, reducing write latency.
  Stores writes in an append-only format, reducing latency and database size by batching updates before writing to the database.
- **Tiered Storage of Workflow Event History:** Offloads completed Workflow Event Histories, improving database efficiency.

Temporal Cloud provides lower latency, making it suitable for latency-sensitive, large-scale, or business-critical applications.

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